After forty years of marriage we still stood with broken swords in our hands.

A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.

I don't like people," said Velvet. "... I only like horses.

When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much.

One's palate is reborn every morning!

The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.

Before you fall asleep everyday, say something positive to yourself.

One can lie, but truth is more interesting.

An only child is never twelve.

I am not a born writer, but I was born a writer.

As for death, one gets used to it, even if it is only other people is death you get used to.

The sound of words as they're said is always different from the sound they make when they're heard, because the speakers hears some of the sound from the inside.

It's about time to see the downfall of the scorecards of who's right and who's wrong. At the end of the day, what's important is that you feel good.

We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.

The iPad falls between two stools - not quite a laptop, not quite a smartphone. In other words, it's the spork of the electronic consumer goods world.

A person can be danced. In all continents the dancers carry little children on their shoulders.

We hear nothing so clearly as what comes out of silence.

Only in the last moment in history has the delusion arisen that people can flourish apart from the rest of the living world.

All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

I would much prefer to suffer from the clean incision of an honest lancet than from a sweetened poison.

The invasion of Iraq was illegal from the start.